thefsb
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I am in need of an education and the 50,000 mansplainers in the youtubes aren't helping much.
To try to understand specs a bit better, I chose 3 budget condensers from one brand: sE Electronics.
The differences that seem interesting but that I don't really understand are diaphragm size and self noise.
What tradeoffs are there with diaphragm size? Sensitivity v. distortion?
And what about self noise? 7 dB difference seems like it might be important to me. My mics ((neither very good: a budget AKG dynamic handheld and a Sure SM35 small-capsule electret) both require a lot of preamp gain and I can hear them even with my tinnitus.
I can understand when to use a pad but I'm a bit unsure what the high-pass filter is for. I can apply whatever filters I want to the recorded digital file. Is the idea that attenuating unwanted low frequencies can allows higher preamp gain and therefore higher SNR for the desired frequencies?
To try to understand specs a bit better, I chose 3 budget condensers from one brand: sE Electronics.
The differences that seem interesting but that I don't really understand are diaphragm size and self noise.
What tradeoffs are there with diaphragm size? Sensitivity v. distortion?
And what about self noise? 7 dB difference seems like it might be important to me. My mics ((neither very good: a budget AKG dynamic handheld and a Sure SM35 small-capsule electret) both require a lot of preamp gain and I can hear them even with my tinnitus.
I can understand when to use a pad but I'm a bit unsure what the high-pass filter is for. I can apply whatever filters I want to the recorded digital file. Is the idea that attenuating unwanted low frequencies can allows higher preamp gain and therefore higher SNR for the desired frequencies?